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Crab + Raisin

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 29 recipes, and they share 40 flavor molecules: the top 17% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together29 recipes
Ranktop 17% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Crab Raisin
49crab only 40shared 89raisin only Crab · 89 Raisin · 129
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do crab and raisin go together?

Yes. 29 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 40 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 17% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

They overlap on 40 flavor molecules: 45% of crab's 89. Among the shared key aromas are 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy) and hexanal (grass, green).

What each one brings

crab

The sulfurous side. Sulfurous notes make up 7% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 3% for raisin. It carries 49 molecules raisin doesn't have.

raisin

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 6% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 1% for crab. It carries 89 molecules crab doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Flour: the best fit for both, top 18% of pairs with crab, top 1% with raisin.
  • Almond: top 16% of pairs with crab, top 2% with raisin.
  • Cinnamon: top 24% of pairs with crab, top 1% with raisin.
  • Nutmeg: top 18% of pairs with crab, top 6% with raisin.

Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.

Recipes with crab and raisin

We have no browsable recipe that lists both crab and raisin.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: crab has 49 molecules raisin doesn't, and raisin has 89 that crab doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 40 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 49 only in crab and the 89 only in raisin.

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Crab and raisin questions

Do crab and raisin go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 29 recipes, and they share 40 flavor molecules: the top 17% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do crab and raisin taste good together?

They overlap on 40 flavor molecules: 45% of crab's 89. Among the shared key aromas are 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy) and hexanal (grass, green).

What goes with crab and raisin?

Flour is the best third ingredient: top 18% of pairs with crab and top 1% with raisin. Almond and cinnamon also fit both.

Can I use raisin instead of crab?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: crab has 49 molecules raisin doesn't, and raisin has 89 that crab doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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Two ingredients gives the full side-by-side breakdown; add a third to see a similarity matrix across all of them (up to 6).

Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs

Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Crab vs Raisin. https://compkitchen.com/compare/crab-vs-raisin. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_crab_vs_raisin_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Crab vs Raisin},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/crab-vs-raisin},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.